imparadise

American  

[im-par-uh-dahys] / ɪmˈpær əˌdaɪs /

verb (used with object)

imparadised, imparadising

1. to enrapture.

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imparadise British  

/ ɪmˈpærədaɪs /

verb

1. to make blissfully happy; enrapture

2. to make into or like paradise

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Etymology

Origin of imparadise

First recorded in 1585–95; im- ¹ + paradise

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Example Sentences

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imparadise imparadised

He saw, I suppose, for he added at once,— "Or what was the name of the Witch of Atlas,   'The magic circle of whose voice and eyes   All savage natures did imparadise?'"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

Mr. Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

There is a land, || of every land the pride, Beloved of heaven || o'er all the world beside; Where brighter suns || dispense serener light, And milder moons || imparadise the night.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders

For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Here the woods, mountains, and waters of Rydal imparadise the abode of the wisest of nature's bards, with whom poetry is religion.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

The sentence was out before she had time to realize that the general untidiness included a searing vision of Lily in an arm-chair, imparadised upon the lap of the impossible Tom Hewitt.

From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

Near him were lovers who in this symphony were fast imparadised; their hands were interlaced; visibly they swayed nearer to each other on the waves of melody.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

For even as Beatrix Dante's wreath did bind, So, Hymnia, hast thou imparadised my mind.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett

With never so holy a calm had she knelt in the jeweled shadows of that chancel or retired from the altar to find her pew imparadised.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie

With spells as gossamer as those of the Monna Bice, at once she imparadised his heart.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

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